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Bill Gates remembers his friend Paul Allen, a brilliant technologist and philanthropist.
Archive for October, 2018
My Bloody Valentine Plan To Release Two New Albums In the Next Year | Music News | Consequence of Sound
In an interview filmed at Super Sonic Festival, Kevin Shields said My Bloody Valentine plan to release two new albums in the next year. These projects follow the band's live comeback over the summer. Also, Shields and Brian Eno's collaborative song "The Weight of History" has been officially released.
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/my-bloody-valentine-two-new-albums-brian-eno-collab/
To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”
https://longreads.com/2018/10/10/to-heil-or-not-to-heil-when-traveling-in-the-third-reich/
Working in quality time instead of clock time – Signal v. Noise
One of the things I love about our flexible work environment at Basecamp is the freedom to step away from something whenever I need to. Right now I’m exploring designs for a new product idea. R&D…
Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco - The New York Times
The city’s new mayor has made cleaner streets a top priority. Residents say it will take much more than a broom to do it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html
Adactio: Journal—An nth-letter selector in CSS
The latest installment in the long tradition of calling for this pseudo-element.
Stereolab: Switched On / Refried Ectoplasm / Aluminum Tunes Album Review | Pitchfork
Singles and splits documented a bandâs between-albums evolution during the 1990s. These compilations, remastered and reissued, document that process for one of the eraâs most innovative groups.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/stereolab-switched-on-refried-ectoplasm-aluminum-tunes/
The Only True Story
In September, for the first time in nine years, I took a month off writing. I spent half of it traveling abroad, and the other half completely riveted by a particular story—a true story, one which I had always intended […]
Steal these ideas from the Sprout Social design team | Inside Design Blog
<p> We sat down with the team to hear about their day-to-day, the best way to get buy-in, and how to run meetings that don’t suck.</p>
Nathan Kontny on Twitter: "Been getting a lot of pings about the end of Highrise: https://t.co/RjdMhYzBX5 My team & I aren't involved anymore unfortunately. Sunset wasn't my decision. We did everything we could to not have this result :("
https://twitter.com/natekontny/status/1034461144696676352?s=12
How to run a calm workplace - Bartleby: The calm company
A management book that is refreshingly different